[161038] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Sullivan)
Fri Feb 22 21:06:35 2013
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:06:09 -0500
From: Andrew Sullivan <asullivan@dyn.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20130222231241.GH99258@numachi.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 06:12:41PM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote:
> The spec for a URL also calls out what constitutes a hostname, and
> I've yet to see a HTTP client that trips over a rooted domain name.
Well, RFC 3986 (URI) explicitly allows the final dot. See the section
on reg-name in section 3.2.2. Sometimes this RFC is used as one of
the example sowers-of-confusion, because despite the fact that the
relevant section is talking about DNS domain names, the name of the
segment of the URI is called "host", and hostnames don't have a
trailing dot.
It's no wonder people who merely have to implement this stuff are
confused, when the stnadards development organization in question
can't figure out how the terminology works!
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